I am posting this unofficial documentary about some things Maltese without comments for now. Feel free to comment below – I intend to add my own commentary later. Thanks to Mark for signalling this documentary. The documentary is signed martinburlund and from what I can gather it is a Danish production that “has not yet been made official”.
Contents of this post will be updated later
Categories: Interesting · MEP Elections · Politics (Malta)
and she ain’t runnning for president
What better subject for a Friday night than sex? Well. Not exactly sex but sexiness. Attractiveness. I just sent the Indy article off for next Sunday so I have time for a little quickie. Post of course since I am miles away from my darling right now and hey, being a Catholic on paper I would not do that sort of thing anyway. So. What was I on about? Ah yes. Red. I was reading this month’s Focus magazine and discovered two interesting facts about the colour red. Scientific facts of course.
1. Red is attractive
Apparently the colour red is a definite factor in rendering someone more attractive. It seems that if men were to see the exact same woman in two different outfits - let’s say one blue and one red – they would invariably be more attracted to the one dressed in red. It seems red is more sexy. More attractive. More appealing.
2. Red is victorious
On an entirely different but related note, it would seem that some freak survey has concluded that the colour red is the most suited colour in which to kit out a sports team. The survey discovered that teams wearing red tend to win more (and I would add be favoured by referees). Of course having competent players does help but red might add that little effect that is more than talismanic.
Conclusions
So red is attractive and red is victorious. Which leads me to two inevitable questions: 1. How do we explain the Malta Labour Party? and 2. Who is going to tell Joseph Muscat that purple might not be such a good idea?
Categories: Interesting
Finally!
Categories: About J'accuse · Interesting
This must be one of the funniest collection of jokes I have seen in a while (BTW the picture above is completely unrelated). Don’t ask why, but I found them during one of my serendipitous netcombing adventures. There they were under the heading “German Jokes”. As one of my other blogs says… “the laughing fit… the rest stay out”. Enjoy….
Knock, knock.
Who’s there?
The police. I’m afraid there’s been an accident. Your husband is in
hospital.
A man walks into a pub.
He is an alcoholic whose drink problem is destroying his family.
Did you hear about the blonde who jumped out off a bridge?
She was clinically depressed and took her own life because of her terribly
low self-esteem.
What do you call a cat with no tail?
A Manx cat.
Why do undertakers wear ties?
Because their profession is very serious, and it is important that their
appearance has a degree of gravitas.
How many electricians does it take to change a light bulb?
One.
Why do women fake orgasms?
Because they want to give men the impression that they have climaxed.
Two men are sitting in a pub.
One man turns to the other and says: ‘Last night I saw lots of strange men
coming in and out of your wife’s house.’
The other man replies: ‘Yes, she has become a prostitute to subsidise her
drug habit.’
Two cows are in a field. Suddenly, from behind a bush, a rabbit leaps out
and runs away.
One cow looks round a bit, eats some grass and then wanders off.
Why are there no aspirin in the jungle?
Because it would not be financially viable to attempt to sell
pharmaceuticals in the largely unpopulated rainforest.
This has been j’accuse… getting it so you don’t have to.
Categories: Interesting · Life
Data Processing (for Political Parties) made Simple
from the Data Protection Act (2000) [Cap.440 Laws of Malta]
Article 2:
(…)
“processing” and “processing of personal data” mean any operation or set of operations which is taken in regard to personal data, whether or not it occurs by automatic means, and includes the collection, recording, organisation, storage, adaptation, alteration, retrieval, gathering, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making information available, alignment or combination, blocking, erasure or destruction of such data;
Article 14
Any body of persons or other entity not being a commercial body or entity, with political, philosophical, religious or trade union objects may, in the course of its legitimate activities and with appropriate guarantees, process sensitive personal data concerning the members of the respective body or entity and such other persons who by reason of the objects of the body or entity have regular contact therewith:
Provided that sensitive personal data may be provided to a third party only if the data subject explicitly consents thereto.
It’s a bit like the hash bars in Amsterdam, as Vincent Vega explains:
It breaks down like this: it’s legal to buy it, it’s legal to own it, and, if you’re the proprietor of a hash bar, it’s legal to sell it. It’s legal to carry it, but that doesn’t really matter ’cause – get a load of this – if you get stopped by the cops in Amsterdam, it’s illegal for them to search you. I mean, that’s a right the cops in Amsterdam don’t have.
Guess who writes the laws? Guess for whose convenience they are written?
A bit like whoever drafted the laws about the hash bars in Amsterdam (Tarantino’s Amsterdam by the way, the real Amsterdam does not really work that way).
It’s the PLPN (TPFKAMLPN). I wonder in the meantime whether the fact that you criticise both parties regularly is sufficient ground to be considered as “having regular contact therewith”. If not Pawlu and Jason might have a hard time explaining the legality of all the processing that goes on in their respective houses.
Categories: Interesting · Politics (Malta)
